Bailed Up
- Artist
- Tom Roberts
- Date
- 1895
- Style
- Impressionism
- Genre
- Genre painting
- Location
- Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW)
Bailed Up is a renowned 1895 genre painting by Australian artist Tom Roberts, showcasing a canvas of dynamic oil work. This compelling scene captures a stage coach being held up by bushrangers in a remote, forested landscape, evoking the rugged Australian frontier. Roberts's impressionistic brushwork, influenced by Impressionism, brings vividness and immediacy to the composition. Housed in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, some critics have called it "the greatest Australian landscape ever painted," highlighting its significance in Australia's artistic history.
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